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Nick and Erin tied the knot yesterday. They got married at Put in Bay on Lake Erie and the day couldn’t have been lovelier. With all the rain we had on Friday I was nervous but the sun pulled through.



With such a gorgeous day I picked a few photos from our portrait session to share as the sneak peak.



The Bride and Groom had a cute yellow bug to chauffeur them around on the island to the portrait destinations.

















Stay tuned to see more of these photos in the galleries. I will soon be adding a few of this years weddings as features.

This weekend Mark and Tara got married. Their wedding was held at Wildwood Metropark (http://www.metroparkstoledo.com/metroparks/wildwood/) and the reception was at the UAW hall.

Mark and Tara are a really fun couple. They can be silly and know how to have some fun. Here are a few quick grabs from their day:

Today was the wedding of Eddie and Lacie. I had the honor of shooting their wedding with my photographer friend John Williamson. The wedding was at the beautiful Schedel Arboretum in Elmore, Ohio: http://www.schedel-gardens.org



I just wanted to tell the happy couple congratulations and give a sneak peak of their portrait session. I intend on sharing more later once I get a chance to edit them. Eddie and Lacie were so fun to shoot. I think Lacey was a model in a past life cause she banged out some perfect expressions without any encouragement from us. They were both quite relaxed during portraits and romantic towards each other. It’s always cute to see couples so happy together. Lacey was so beautiful today too, I can’t wait to edit this wedding!

I’m still working on my flower beds. This past weekend I went to the street market and they had super deals on flowers. If you have not flower shopped the Erie Street market on the weekend I highly suggest that as one of the spots you go to.



Here is one of my roses:




I’m really excited I haven’t killed everything off. I’ve only had a couple of plants get frosted but the majority are growing steadily. I enjoy gardening but don’t have the greatest of thumbs for it yet. A few years ago I had my husband help me clean up some weeds. I gave him Round up to spray on this brick work we had on our back porch where the grout has succumbed to weeds. He ended up spraying Round Up on every living thing surrounding our house! Men and their talents for actually reading labels! I was so devastated. This is the first year since I’ve been able to get at least part of the landscaping back and looking good in the front. Later in the year when it grows in I’ll have to take some shots to share. We still need to mulch and I have yet some seedlings to get growing.

This past week my son had a field trip to a local farm. I volunteered to help drive. I had the twins with me so I couldn’t photograph like I would have wanted to but I got enough for the good old scrapbook. The farm was Country Lane tree Farm. They had lots of critters to see. Their website is here: http://www.countrylanetreefarm.com/



Here are some of the animals we saw. (Due to the fact I do not have permission slips from parents I will not be showing any recognizable photos of children.)



This is one of the first guys that greeted us.




There were three of these big tom turkeys that kept flashing and showing off. They were quite tame.




All that showing off must have paid off as baby turkeys were born just a few short weeks ago and the kids were able to hold them.




In the same barn were also baby ducks. This one was getting warm under the heat lamp.




I was really fascinated by the roosters around as they were very unique in color. No two were alike.




They had a straw maze in a barn with a slide at the end. Here are children blazing through to get back in line to go down again.




They also had bunnies.




The children got to experience milking the cows. This lady was cow eyeing me as we waited for our turn.




Here are a pair of albino peacocks.




That’s it for the farm set. My wedding season is starting so keep watch for some new wedding shots in here.